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This post is part of the “Generation Entrepreneur” series featuring 20 and 30-something women who are participating in the Forbes Women's Summit: The Entrepreneurship of Everything. They're challenging the status quo, taking action and redefining power.

I'm a graduate. Aren't you? But millions of girls worldwide can't attend school. As Founder of She’s the First, I empower you to change that and give girls the power to be first in their families to graduate high school.

What does the Entrepreneurship of Everything mean to you?

Entrepreneurial skills are needed everywhere, whether you work inside of a major, century-old corporation, as I used to, or inside of a nimble startup, as I do now. Everything as we know it can be reimagined. You have to be brave enough to think outside the box, test and refine them, inspire others to join you, and see the great big potential in a teeny tiny seed of an idea.

How does being an entrepreneur redefine power?

As an entrepreneur, power comes from the people who believe in your mission or product as passionately as you do. It's not about top down, it's about bottom up and peer to peer. I'm most powerful when my actions are in synergy with all my stakeholders -- students, volunteers, board members and donors. It's about women and men working together, across generations, with an entrepreneurial spirit -- that's when we'll see real change and that's redefining power.

What entrepreneurial actions are you taking?

She’s the First puts the power in the people – and that gives them their own entrepreneurial power.

Here’s an example. Back in 2012, I noticed a group of students involved in a She’s the First chapter at the University of Notre Dame raised a lot of money, almost one thousand dollars, just from having a bake sale.

The twist: They added food coloring to the batter, making these cupcakes "tie-dye." We shared the students' recipe on shesthefirst.org and our social media, and before we knew it, other students were replicating their success. That's what gave me the idea to organize our first national campaign, which we now call the Tie-Dye Cupcake Bake-Off, held for one week every fall. Tie-dye cupcakes have become a signature student-organized fundraiser for girls' education scholarships with She's the First, and that's all because we listened to what actions our community enjoyed and found easy to do.

Our other national campaign, Run the World (runtheworld.shesthefirst.org), which builds a community around fitness fundraisers, came about in a similar way. We saw that young professionals signed up for races as a means of asking friends and family for donations. In 2012, one millennial woman, Erin Leigh, signed up for her first two marathons in one year! She and her friend Brooke raised more than $17,000 to sponsor the education for 26 girls in Nepal (one for each mile) fortwo years. Erin Leigh and Brooke's determination to push their physical limits inspired many other first-time runners, and that’s what created the traction for the campaign.

It's very exciting for me to see how the most successful fundraisers for She’s the First didn’t have to come from me – it’s about listening, watching and taking action together.